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Installing Ximian GNOME

Well... It took me two nights and day, but I finally downloaded Ximian. I copied it onto a cd then cp *.* into my root directory, it worked great not a problem.

BUT (Yes I know you are all getting tried of my questions by now.) When I type uncompress -c solaris-rpm-db.tar.Z &#124; tar xf I something along the lines of &quot;A switch must be used with the old -f command.&quot; I have No clue what to do about that. Any ideas?

Re: Installing Ximian GNOME

Bizarre as this may sound, I had a similar problem. I just added the verbose switch (v) and then it worked fine. I don't know why, it just did. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Or, does anyone know why my system allowed xfv but not xf?

Re: Installing Ximian GNOME

Bizarre as this may sound, I had a similar problem. *I just added the verbose switch (v) and then it worked fine. *I don't know why, it just did. *Does anyone know how to fix this problem? *Or, does anyone know why my system allowed xfv but not xf?

I tried xfv a number of times and -xfv, both of then in many different combination as well and still no luck. This is what I typeduncompress -c solaris-rpm-db.tar.Z &#124; tar xfv it just didn't work.

Re: Installing Ximian GNOME

Thanks Harris, I added the - at the end of the xfv and it worked. Another problem has popped up though. And no I am not on Solaris.

I can't install in within an X Window system and it wants me to chaged the display settings for the installer with some sort of switch. I need change the display settings so that I may run the installer through a normal terminal. How do I do this?

Re: Installing Ximian GNOME

if i understand you correctly then you should go to a regular login, if redhat you can type init 3 as root at a prompt and then exit you window manager, should dump you to a screen w/o and windows running.